Is Employee Engagement in your sights?

The link between employee engagement and productivity means that it’s a hot topic. As a result, it’s been in the news recently with an article in the Guardian discussing a recent study from the University of Warwick. This revealed that happy and engaged staff are 12 percent more productive and that low employee engagement is costing the UK £340 billion a year in lost productivity.

So how do we measure Employee Engagement? The CIPD believe that a single metric is too simplistic and rather than a single score, a range of relevant metrics are more enlightening and actionable. We agree which is why we measure against 10 themes and recommend employee interviews as well as an online questionnaire to ensure we have a balance of qualitative and quantitative research. This enables us to develop as full a picture as possible in order to identify specific areas for improvement. Increasing your employee engagement scores will help to increase productivity and ultimately profit. Come along to our employee engagement workshop on the 22nd November and you’ll leave with an action plan to start improving employee engagement in your workplace. Click here to book your place.

Look out for more from the study next week when we’ll tell you about the benefits of working outdoors.